I wonder what smart fish taste like?

Have you ever noticed that lures look nothing like a real fish?

Let's take a look at this so called 'natural' lure:

Have you ever seen a fish that looked like this? I don't think so. Not even after a dozen beers. This looks nothing like any living creature. Then we have the even less natural:

Perhaps life on the outer rings of Saturn looks like this but not something on earth. Even soft plastics, I mean seriously, have you ever seen a living creature that looks like this?

You get my point here?

Perhaps that's why we don't really catch that many fish, because nothing that is meant to represent a fish actually looks like a fish? I mean was there a period in the 70's or something when they made realistic lures and then got rid of them because they didn't work?

Even if lures did look like our little gudgeon up yonder getting it to swim the way a gudgeon actually swims is the next trick.

It is a conspiracy I tell you!

We are being sold lures that some grand puppeteer knows look nothing like the real thing so we don't catch too many fish. We are living in the lure makers' Matrix.

They tell us fish have great eye sight, OK, well that leads to only one possible explanation. The fish we catch are the dumb ones, the guys who never made it out of fish kindie, the retard fish.

I wonder what smart fish taste like?

PS I'd like to see a fish tank with live bait versus a whole heap of lures. That would be the real test of whether all fish are idiots.

PSS For a further discussion on this topic, view this Angling Victoria thread.